Visual presentation of search results

Abstract

The present disclosure involves displaying a search result by selecting a repository for searching; inputting one or more keywords for searching, wherein at least one of the one or more keywords is a location mandatory keyword; searching the selected repository for one or more documents that contain the one or more inputted keyword to generate a search result; defining at least two elements of a tree structure view; selecting a portion of the tree structure view to display and displaying the search result in the selected portion of the tree structure view. Also, one of the at least two elements maybe a subset of another of the at least two elements. In some examples, a display includes at least four bucket categories based which are displayed for one of the at least two elements.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A method for displaying a search result, comprising:
 selecting a repository for searching; 
 using a computer or a handheld device for inputting one or more keywords for searching, wherein one or more keywords include a mandatory keyword, and wherein at least one of the one or more keywords is a location mandatory keyword and the location mandatory keyword is associated with a location within a page of a document on which the location mandatory keyword will appear; 
 using the computer or the handheld device for inputting the location associated with the location mandatory keyword, wherein the location is one of the following: a left top quadrant of a page of a document, a right top quadrant of the page, a left bottom quadrant of the page, a right bottom quadrant of the page, a top section of the page divided into three vertical sections, a middle section of the page divided into three vertical sections, or a bottom section of the page divided into three vertical sections; 
 following inputting the location associated with the location mandatory keyword, using a processor for searching the selected repository for one or more documents that contain the one or more inputted keywords to generate a search result; 
 determining if the search result contains the one or more documents and if the search result contains the one or more documents, then defining at least two elements of a tree structure view; and 
 using the computer or the handheld device for selecting a portion of the tree structure view to display. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising specifying a sentence, a paragraph or a specified coordinate space and wherein one of the one or more keywords is in a relative position to the sentence, the paragraph or the specified coordinate space. 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising searching the selected repository using a single page search option and wherein each document of the search result includes at least one single page that contains all the one or more keywords. 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising searching the context of the one or more documents. 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 4 , further comprising searching the meta data of the one or more documents. 
     
     
       6. A method for displaying a search result, comprising:
 selecting a repository for searching; 
 using a computer or a handheld device for inputting one or more keywords for searching, wherein one or more keywords include a mandatory keyword, and wherein at least one of the one or more keywords is a location mandatory keyword associated with a location within a page of a document on which the location mandatory keyword will appear; 
 using the computer or the handheld device for inputting the location associated with the location mandatory keyword, wherein the location is one of the following: a left top quadrant of a page of a document, a right top quadrant of the page, a left bottom quadrant of the page, a right bottom quadrant of the page, a top section of the page divided into three vertical sections, a middle section of the page divided into three vertical sections, or a bottom section of the page divided into three vertical sections; 
 following inputting the location associated with the location mandatory keyword, searching the selected repository for one or more documents that contain the one or more inputted keywords to generate a search result; 
 determining if the search result contains the one or more documents and if the search result contains the one or more documents, then defining at least two elements of a tree structure view, wherein one of the at least two elements is a subset of another of the at least two elements; and 
 selecting a portion of the tree structure view to display. 
 
     
     
       7. The method of  claim 6 , further comprising defining each of the at least two elements based on the selected repository. 
     
     
       8. The method of  claim 7 , further comprising displaying in one of the at least two elements a quantity of documents in the search result belonging to the one of the at least two elements. 
     
     
       9. The method of  claim 7 , further comprising displaying in each of the at least two elements a quantity of documents in the search result belonging to the each of the at least two elements. 
     
     
       10. The method of  claim 6 , wherein the portion of the tree structure view includes the at least two elements. 
     
     
       11. The method of  claim 10 , further comprising displaying the portion of the tree structure with at least one CIF page for each document in the search result. 
     
     
       12. The method of  claim 11 , wherein the at least one CIF page includes one of the following: a first page of a document, a first page of a document with all the one or more keywords, or a first page of the document with a majority of the one or more keywords. 
     
     
       13. The method of  claim 6 , wherein the portion of the tree structure view includes one of the at least two elements. 
     
     
       14. The method of  claim 13 , further comprising displaying the portion of the tree structure with at least one CIF page for each document in the search result. 
     
     
       15. The method of  claim 14 , wherein the at least one CIF page includes one of the following: a first page of a document, a first page of a document with all the one or more keywords, or a first page of the document with a majority of the one or more keywords. 
     
     
       16. A method for displaying a search result, comprising:
 selecting a repository for searching; 
 using a computer or a handheld device for inputting one or more keywords for searching, wherein one or more keywords include a mandatory keyword, and wherein at least one of the one or more keywords is a location mandatory keyword associated with a location within a page of a document on which the location mandatory keyword will appear; 
 using the computer or the handheld device for inputting the location associated with the location mandatory keyword, wherein the location is one of the following: a left top quadrant of a page of a document, a right top quadrant of the page, a left bottom quadrant of the page, a right bottom quadrant of the page, a top section of the page divided into three vertical sections, a middle section of the page divided into three vertical sections, or a bottom section of the page divided into three vertical sections; 
 following inputting the location associated with the location mandatory keyword, using a processor for searching the selected repository for one or more documents that contain the one or more inputted keywords to generate a search result; 
 determining if the search result contains the one or more documents and if the search result contains the one or more documents, then defining at least two elements of a tree structure view; 
 using the computer or the handheld device for selecting a portion of the tree structure view to display and 
 displaying the search result in the selected portion of the tree structure view with at least four bucket categories based on the search result, wherein the at least four bucket categories are displayed for one of the at least two elements and each of the at least four bucket categories indicates whether the one or more keywords is found in the content or metadata of the search result. 
 
     
     
       17. The method of  claim 16 , wherein one of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not at least one document in the search result contains all of the one or more keywords in the content of each of the at least one document in the search result. 
     
     
       18. The method of  claim 16 , wherein one of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not at least one document in the search result contains at least one of the one or more keywords in the content of each of the at least one document in the search result. 
     
     
       19. The method of  claim 16 , wherein one of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not at least one document in the search result contains all of the one or more keywords in the meta data of each of the at least one document in the search result. 
     
     
       20. The method of  claim 16 , wherein one of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not at least one document in the search result contains at least one of the one or more keywords in the meta data of each of the at least one document in the search result. 
     
     
       21. The method of  claim 16 , wherein a first of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not at least one document in the search result contains all of the one or more keywords in the content of each of the at least one document in the search result; wherein a second of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not the at least one document in the search result contains at least one of the one or more keywords in the content of each of the at least one document in the search result; wherein a third of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not the at least one document in the search result contains all of the one or more keywords in the meta data of each of the at least one document in the search result; and wherein a fourth of the four bucket categories indicates whether or not the at least one document in the search result contains at least one of the one or more keywords in the meta data of each of the at least one document in the search result. 
     
     
       22. The method of  claim 21 , further comprising determining an overlap between at least two of the at least four bucket categories. 
     
     
       23. The method of  claim 16 , further comprising determining an overlap between at least two of the at least four bucket categories. 
     
     
       24. The method of  claim 16 , further comprising prioritizing the display of each document of the search result within each of the at least four bucket categories. 
     
     
       25. The method of  claim 24 , wherein the prioritizing is based on one or more of the following: a date of the each document, a quantity of pages of the each document, or a meta data parameter of the each document, or number of keywords found in each document.